Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I remember siting in the theatre more than a decade ago (God, I'm so freaking old...) and watching The Others. During one particularly intense jump scare, when the medium found the kids hiding in the closet, a woman who was sitting in the row few seats away from me jumped so high her popcorn fell out of the bucket. When I saw The Conjuring a woman in my row was weeping actual tears. It happened during the finale of the film and I'm not sure why it was, out of fear or because what was on the screen was so intense.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Sati's movie rating - 74/100Plot: Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) comes home to find his wife Lisa
disfigured and dead in their apartment just minutes after a mysterious,
not to mention creepy, package was left on their doorstep containing an
old ventriloquist dummy. With no alibi, a detective is left to assume
Jamie as the prime suspect. Driven by an old ghost story, Jamie returns
to Ravens Fair, his old hometown to prove his innocence.The heroes: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Jason Stackhouse!The antagonists: Ventriloquist dummies and one scary, freaky, awesome villain that controls them.Best scene: The first night Jaime spends in a motel.Oh-oh something's not right line: If you go looking for answers, you just might find them. Morbid Trivia:
During the climax, in the storage area with all 101 dolls, you can see
Jigsaw's doll from the "Saw" films sitting on the floor, and Edgar
Bergen's
doll Charlie McCarthy on one of the shelves. The doll that Detective
Lipton throws over his shoulder in this scene is a replica of
ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson's doll, Danny O'Day. Fun fact #2 - watch out
for Jigsaw doll in Warrens' special room with hunted objects in The Conjuring.

Friday, July 26, 2013

I was going to open with Comic Con but something much more important happened - the flawless season (series?) finale to Luther. Oh, man. That was amazing, such a poetic and wonderful ending. Kudos to Ruth Wilson for her self control. I'd do so many things right there on that bridge.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Let me say this upfront - I don't mind silly movies. Just few days ago I had a great time watching Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in The Heat. It was dumb, but at least it wasn't boring. This is pretty much the minimum I ask of summer film - to entertain. So when I was checking my text messages during Pacific Rim, I knew that it failed for me.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Sati's movie rating - 65/100Plot: David, his drug-using sister Mia and his friends Eric, Olivia and
Natalie travel to an isolated cabin that belonged to his parents to
spend a couple of days together. Mia promises to stop using drugs and
Olivia, who is a nurse, promises to help Mia in her abstinence. They
discover a hidden basement with witchcraft and the Book of the Dead, and
Eric reads it and unintentionally summons an evil force. Mia, Olivia
and Natalie are possessed by evil and Eric reads the book trying to
learn how to destroy the demon.The heroes: Bunch of young people in the woods with protagonist Mia who is a drug addict.The antagonists: Demon from hell.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Emmys are fucking insane. Nominating Emilia Clarke over Michelle Fairley was the nail to the coffin filled with all the crazy shit they've done over the years. Nominating Dinklage over Waldau? Please. I think Dinklage is an absolute treasure and he sure acted the shit out of that wedding scene but it was Waldau's season. BY WHAT RIGHT DOES A WOLF JUDGE A LION?!?!? And he is not nominated?! What is happening? The man spent most of the season with mud in his ass. And you can't even nominate him?

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Game of Thrones and Rome. Both excellent series from HBO, both highly expensive with huge ensemble casts and intricate and astonishing scale of production. But there are even more similarities between the two.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Underrated actresses. I bet every one of you could name at least 5 women who for you fit that category. But as I'm currently rewatching Rome and I'm, practically at any given month, rewatching Game of Thrones, I decided to create a sub-category - underrated TV actresses.

I truly hope that the days when TV was considered inferior to movies are behind us. Hell, if I look at the movies nominated for Academy Awards last year and shows that are still airing like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Homeland...it is TV that is actually superior. These actresses below deserve better roles in better projects they appeared in. More often than not the role I highlighted in this article was a big break for them, but sadly not much happened afterwards.

Friday, July 12, 2013

I've been rewatching Rome, which led me to making even more gifsets. The show is hugely entertaining but I stand by my opinion that it's really nowhere near GoT quality. That said, Atia would have destroyed Cersei. In fact, I'm kinda sure she would make her cry.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Usually I come up with ideas for these fine posts myself, but once something is pointed out to me and makes me go "that's right" it would be a shame not to use it. Some time ago, Chris of moviesandsongs asked me if I'm planning to do parallels for Somewhere and Earrings. Having not seen Somewhere in a long time, the comparison between that one and Alex Withrow's debut film did not occur to me. But I've recently rewatched Somewhere and some of the similarities between them are just striking and not just when it comes to visual aspect.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

I caught up with first three episodes of True Blood 6. It's actually already better than season 5, but then again is it even possible for it to be worse than that? The show is definitely entertaining. I mean they have Rutger Hauer playing fairy king! This is fucking insane. And Alexander Skarsgard. Oh my God. Thy should do like a spin off of Eric being all Eric. Don't bother with the story, just have him seduce women and have sex with them. Oh, wait. That's porn.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Films about the end of the world are extremely popular in Hollywood lately - we either get big blockbuster movies, comedies or horror films about the subject. Some of those are really good like last year's Cabin in the Woods. And now we have new addition to the list of good end of the world movies - This is the End - hugely entertaining, hilarious comedy that I'm definitely going to rewatch many times.